Salads came to us from ancient times and were densely arranged in the gastronomic world, changing and supplementing with the times. Due to the expansion of the product range, salads become not only a pleasant decoration of any festive table, but also everyday food, easy and convenient to prepare.
Thousands of recipes that exist in the world can make the daily menu festive and varied. Every day, throughout your life, you can cook various salads and never repeat, because in addition to meat, chicken, fish and vegetable salads, there are many others: seafood, fruit, pasta. At the same time, salads can be festive and everyday, seasoned with all kinds of sauces with an unimaginable combination of flavors. Today we will consider a light salad, the recipe of which appeared, thanks to people who support a healthy lifestyle.
Light salad. Recipe.
This salad is perfect for those who follow a diet or fast, fast cooking and unusual taste will appeal to any housewife.
The proportions depend only on how much salad you want to cook, for example, take one serving:
- a large fresh cucumber;
- a pair of lettuce leaves;
- clove of lilac garlic;
- dill and parsley, a pair of twigs;
- a pair of feathers of green onions;
- a slice of freshly cut lemon;
- extra virgin olive oil;
- some salt and pepper.
Now we are preparing all this: we clean and grate it on a “super grater” or the so-called “grater for Korean carrots”. Finely chop the greens, pour into the cucumbers. In a separate container, mix olive oil with pressed garlic, add salt and pepper and squeeze a slice of lemon to enhance the taste. The resulting lemon-garlic sauce is seasoned with a light salad, the recipe of which will pleasantly surprise everyone who decides to try to make it for themselves.
Light salad, recipe "Grilled prawn"
The name of the dish can be misleading about its "high" calorie content for those who first read it. However, this is really a light salad, the recipe is very simple, and the secret is that the skin is removed from the chicken breast, which contains a huge amount of fat and kilocalories, therefore, after its removal, only white diet meat remains.
Ingredients:
- 900 g fillet of fresh chicken breast;
- five quail eggs;
- 12 cherry tomatoes;
- sour small apple;
- a pair of lettuce leaves;
- a small lilac onion;
- 30 ml unsweetened yogurt;
- 30 ml of tomato paste;
- 13 ml of cognac;
- coarse salt and spices to taste.
Easy salad recipe
1. Rinse the fillet and place in a prepared sleeve, add salt and spices there.
2. Wash the tomatoes and cut in half.
3. Peel the purple onion and chop finely.
4. Peel the apple from the peel and viscera, cut into small cubes.
5. Mix yogurt with ketchup and cognac in a separate bowl and put in the refrigerator.
6. Take out the cooked fillet and cut into small and neat plates and put in the prepared container, send the tomatoes, onions and apple there and mix gently, gradually pouring the sauce from yogurt and ketchup.
7. Put lettuce leaves on the prepared dish and pour a light salad of chicken and tomatoes on top of the slide. You can decorate with fresh herbs or green olives.
Light holiday salads do not have to be low-calorie, perhaps the recipe for their preparation is so simple that it takes very little time to prepare, and the dish will turn out to be unusually tasty and aromatic. Such salads include Surf, the recipe of which we will now describe to you.
"Surf"
- 330 g of fresh large shrimp;
- 220 g of crab straw;
- 110 g of hard cheese;
- a few lettuce leaves;
- a large fresh cucumber or two medium;
- light lemon mayonnaise.
Cooking Surf
1. Rinse and boil the shrimp, then peel and rinse with boiling water to wash off excess.
2. Make crab sticks with short sticks.
3. Lather and pick leaves of lettuce.
4. Peel and finely chop the cucumber into circles.
5. Grate cheese or cut into very thin "petals".
6. Spread Surf should be layered in a deep dish, pouring and coating each layer with mayonnaise:
- lettuce leaves
- most of the shrimp,
- cucumbers
- crab straw
- cheese.
Give the salad the desired shape, for example, waves with a spatula and mayonnaise, garnish with shrimp on top.